Songwriters in the Round

Wed. Jan. 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Four songwriters, trading songs and swapping stories. And you have a front row seat.

Our songwriters this week

Celia Slattery has entertained audiences from Boston to Bangkok with her original songs, one-woman shows and interpretations of jazz and pop standards. In her early career, inspired by the folk tradition and singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, Celia toured as a solo acoustic act at coffeehouses and clubs such as Club Passim (Cambridge, MA) and the Iron Horse (Northampton, MA.) Later, jazz studies at New England Conservatory with Dominique Eade and Ran Blake introduced her to the great American songbook and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Celia had a chance to hone her chops with a six-month contract at the legendary Bamboo Bar at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Metronome Magazine said of her CD “Our Life Together”: “Penning all five songs on the disc, Slattery proves that she’s not only a powerhouse performer, but a titan in the songwriting department as well. Her songs all emanate from a place close to her heart while she makes them universally accessible to all who listen.” www.celiaslatterymusic.com

As a community builder, teacher and songwriter Rene Pfister has worked with kids and families for over 30 years creating original musicals. He is Co-founder director of the company Make your life a Musical, an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and Artistic Director of The Berklee Theatre Arts Collaborative (BTAC) where he combines his love of teaching and musical theater to help students around the world create. He has taught internationally in Argentina, Europe, China, India, and Africa and started the Broadway Around the World program at Berklee. Since 2018, Pfister has performed a series of his one-person shows including What I Learned From All My Ex-Boyfriends… If Anything! and What I Learned From Years of Therapy.. If Anything! Pfister is currently working on his new book “Make your life a musical” about his work creating musicals in community and “I talk to myself” a series of comic essays about life as an LGBTQ artist in these crazy times. renepfistermusic.com

Kylie Harris is an acclaimed country music singer/songwriter who hails from New Zealand and currently resides in Massachusetts. Kylie has a storied career starting as a teen in her home country. This two-time Gold Guitar Award winner has recorded four albums and toured with the likes of Charley Pride and Patty Loveless.In addition, she has won four Tui Country Music Awards including Album of the Year, Song of the Year awards and Rising Star Award. She has also performed at The Opry and Ryman, while living in Music City, and has played around the world. https://www.kylieharrismusic.com/

David Thorne Scott is a singer and songwriter in jazz and Americana styles. A 20-year resident of Somerville, he organized Songwriters in the Round to foster a creative, dynamic music scene for his adopted home city. He believes that music can bring a community together like nothing else. “At a time of great conflict in our country – when words often fail us – music has the power to bridge divides… David Thorne Scott explores the intersection of Jazz and Americana, city and country, instrumentation and lyrics to create lush compositions and covers that are unifying, and healing, in their beauty.” – Laurie Fanell, Eponymous Review www.davidthornescott.com

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